On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 3:27 PM, <alexander.r@gmx.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 12:14:25PM -0400, Ido Rosen wrote:
If metalinks/some external file are the only way to do this, you would need a local source entry for the metalink / mirrors file AND a reference to each file to pull from that metalink/mirrors file in the source array
This is obviously incorrect. Please re-read your message, so that no one has to waste more breath.
I've submitted a patch for the mirror idea that follows Jerome's way of doing it, which Florian modified and sent over to pacman-dev. If you want it done differently, submit a patch to help make pacman better rather than making toxic comments, you'll alienate less peers that way. :-) The point that perhaps I wasn't making clearly (or verbosely) enough was that in the current implementation of makepkg, adding the metalink/.mirrors file to the source array then downloading it in prepare() as you yourself suggested does involve having those files as local files (download_local() in makepkg.sh.in) in the PKGBUILD and then referring to them again in the PKGBUILD, on top of having to understand the metalink format or a new .mirrors format (as opposed to a simple additional array entry as was Jerome's suggestion). The result is that the reader must understand those extra file formats and must go somewhere outside of the PKGBUILD to understand where downloaded files are coming from. This would be the case if metalinks/a separate file were the only or primary mechanism for supporting mirroring. For the common case I brought up, where there are 2 or 3 mirrors for the primary source file(s), metalinks/a new .mirrors file format seems overly complex to me.
It also is less KISS than just having multiple source array entries for a mirrored file, since the packager and the person reading the package now need to understand another file format to parse out where the file is coming from.
I'm not opposed to adding metalink, torrent, carrier pigeon, and sneakernet support to DLAGENTS by default
You are the one, who wants metalink, torrent, carrier pigeon, and sneakernet support to be implemented in pure Bash as part of makepkg. With numerous mirrors and
Nice straw man. You were the one who suggested metalinks; I said I don't care either way if they're implemented or not (i.e. it is not a vote for or against their implementation... What I said in the paragraphs you misquoted is that I'm neutral to whether the extra DLAGENTs like metalinks, torrents, etc. are implemented or not, and that this is a separate issue. Jerome's proposal is a simpler and more KISS way of solving the common use case / problem that I was trying to solve: mirror A is down for a file may be downloaded from mirrors A or B.
sofisticated source arrays, cluttering PKGBUILD source, nobody would indeed be able to understand, what's going on in it's prepare() or build() functions. Obviously, fell free to do something like that yourself; all you need is to re-define prepare() to do whatever you want. Just don't advertise that as something, great enough to become the standard.
I did like Jerome's suggestion, which was different and simpler than my original suggestion of supporting sources as an associative array. That's why I implemented it and sent it to Florian. The only change that patch makes is that now makepkg aborts at the end of trying to download all the files rather than after the first failed download, and treats source entries with duplicate filenames as equivalents/interchangeable/mirrors. To put it more simply: source=("http://a.com/file.tar.gz" "http://b.com/file.tar.gz") ^ now makepkg recognizes these as mirrors of file.tar.gz, and will only abort if *both* (rather than either) fail to download file.tar.gz. Cheers, Ido
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